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...blaze of speculation and hope had sprung up around two secondary political figures-the Congress party's Bhulabhai Desai, 67, and the Moslem League's Nawabzada Liaqat Ali Khan, 49, who reportedly had set out to break the interminable deadlock. Both were members of the Central Legislative Assembly in New Delhi, both felt that they could negotiate with the British authorities more freely than their policy-bound leaders, Mohandas Gandhi and Mohamed Ali Jinnah...
...Blaze had crossed the Atlantic, as Elliott had said, in a Fortress commanded by the President's second son.* Hal George was careful to explain that Blaze had deprived no one of a place on that trip...
...Presque Isle, Me., Blaze was put off the B17, whether because the lack of oxygen had unstrung him or for some other reason. But he was not long marooned. An Army B-25 took him aboard, carried him to New York City's LaGuardia Field. There a Marine Corps pilot picked him up, delivered him safe & sound to Washington. The pilot called the White House and someone sent a station wagon to gather up his passenger...
Without Question. How did Blaze get the No. 1 priority which crowded three No. 3 priority servicemen off the A.T.C. transport at Memphis, a short while later? Well, the President's daughter and No. 2 official White House hostess (who was all ready to go off to Yalta-see Foreign-Relations) had fixed that. It was simple. She called the A.T.C.'s priority officer, and asked him if A.T.C. would take the beast out to Elliott's new bride, Cinemactress Faye Emerson, in Hollywood...
Anna Boettiger never once mentioned a priority. But nothing moves on A.T.C. without a priority, and Colonel Ray W. Ireland, who took her call, knew what to do. Blaze got his No. 1-and before the week was out, the hardworking, globe-girdling Air Transport Command was right in the middle of the kind of news it does not like to make...